Optimize Your IT With an Open Hyperconverged Infrastructure

In the public sector and industries like energy, retail, banking, and telecommunications, organizations increasingly rely on business-critical applications that must be deployed with limited space, budgetary constraints, and scarcity of skilled IT staff. They must extend the reach of these applications from datacenter core to edge of the network with reduced complexity on the infrastructure that best meets their IT requirements.

Red Hat’s innovative approach to addressing these issues includes Red Hat® Hyperconverged Infrastructure for Virtualization, which provides flexibility and choice for customers seeking low-density, infrastructure consolidation based on our leading virtualization platform. Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure for Virtualization is streamlined with Red Hat Ansible® Automation and is based entirely on code from the open source community.

During the webinar, we’ll discuss:
> Market dynamics and challenges customers are facing with too much required by too few resources in too short a period.
> The emergence of hyperconverged infrastructure as an alternative to inefficient segregated infrastructure.
> Why hyperconverged infrastructure operational processes are more effective.
> How an open source subscription model can facilitate maximum benefits of infrastructure consolidation.

As telecommunications service providers increasingly turn toward open source to modernize and transform their networks, they face the prospect of tackling a do-it-yourself project or working with a vendor partner that can support the required technologies. This important choice can determine the success of these strategic modernization initiatives.

Join Heavy Reading principal analyst Roz Roseboro and Pano Xinos, Red Hat global lead for telecommunications solution marketing, to hear more about:
• Why open source is so prominent in the telecommunications industry.
• Pitfalls to avoid when deciding to work with open source technologies.
• What the future holds for service providers at the network edge.

Ansible's simple automation framework means that previously isolated network administrators can finally speak the same language of automation as the rest of the IT organization, extending the capabilities of Ansible to include native support for both legacy and open network infrastructure devices. Network devices and systems can now be included in an organization's overall automation strategy for a holistic approach to application workload management.

Businesses constantly face the pressure to increase efficiency, agility, and innovation while adhering to compliance standards and regulations. As demand grows to respond faster to market changes, even the most skilled IT teams are challenged.
Join this webinar to learn how Red Hat® Ansible® Tower, Red Hat Insights, and Red Hat Satellite 6 together provide a complete, automated, proactive security solution.

We’ll cover:
• Useful examples and details about the why and how to use these tools together.
• How to abstract Satellite 6 to use as a dynamic inventory source.
• How to use Insights to detect issues and create playbooks.
• How to use Ansible® Tower to automate with workflow and reporting.

Security is hard. We know what needs to be done, but configuring systems and applications, especially thousands of them, to make life more difficult for attackers is daunting. Learn to use the agentless, push-based power of Red Hat Ansible Automation to apply and enforce security standards that adapt to meet internal and external security guidelines.

We come from a long history of building software the "release early, release often" way. To do it right, automation is key–but so is simplicity. Learn how to integrate Red Hat Ansible Tower with Jenkins to provide the full chain of continuous integration / continuous delivery (CI/CD) in an integrated, automated fashion covering the entire stack.

Red Hat Ansible Automation is simple and powerful. It gives you the power to deploy multi-tier applications reliably and consistently, all from one common framework. You can configure needed services as well as push application artifacts from one common system. In this session, you will learn how to provision cloud resources with Ansible Automation. This session uses Microsoft Azure as the example, but you can also use Ansible Automation to provision cloud resources for other cloud platforms, such as Google, AWS, and OpenStack.

Using Red Hat Satellite to manage your Red Hat Enterprise Linux environments has never been easier. See how you can monitor existing deployments for risk and fix critical issues before they can cause downtime.

Ansible Playbooks are pretty simple—you run Ansible as a particular user, and it uses your credentials. This process is great for automating quickly, but what if you want to delegate automation to someone else to run as needed? That's where Red Hat Ansible Tower can help. In this session, you will learn how Ansible Tower manages users and teams, how you can assign permissions to each, and how these permissions help you use automation to bring together different teams.

In a hybrid infrastructure, it is often difficult and time consuming to maintain visibility, control, security, governance, and compliance. In this session, you’ll learn how a combination of Red Hat Ansible Automation, Red Hat Satellite, Red Hat Insights, and OpenSCAP can help you with these challenges by automating security and compliance.

Red Hat Ansible Automation, automates your switches, routers, firewalls, load balancers and more. In this session, learn how network devices and systems can now be included in an organization's overall automation strategy for a holistic approach to automating IT infrastructure. We'll cover Ansible Automation throughout the entire production life cycle, including:
- Automating configuration of the network stack from system to access to core services.
- Testing and validating existing network states.
- Continuously checking for network configuration drift to maintain compliance.

It's hard to find a homogeneous IT stack nowadays. You may have a Linux server farm, but an AD cluster providing identity. Or you have a cross-platform build environment that builds your software for multiple different targets. Your management and automation tools need to be able to handle multiple, vastly different targets - Linux, Unix, networking, cloud services, and Windows.

Every solution starts with sharing a problem. At Red Hat, when we talk about open source, we're talking about a proven way of collaborating to create technology—the freedom to see the code, to learn from it, to ask questions and offer improvements. This represents the open source way. However, bringing together people in your organization to collaborate is often easier said than done. At Red Hat, we’ve created communities of practice (COP) to help our own people collaborate, especially on new and emerging technologies—including automation.

During this session, you’ll learn how to build your own automation community of practice in your organization. The session will cover topics like: What is a COP and why should you build one. How to get started. How to get people to participate. How to grow the community.

Red Hat Ansible Automation is powerful—so powerful that it automates more than just your Linux environment. It can also automate your Windows environment, your network, your cloud, and more. In this session, learn how Ansible Automation can help automate entire IT business processes across the IT stack and gain tremendous value.

In this session, we'll focus on implementation strategy for IT automation and management across hybrid clouds. We'll provide customer success examples, additional market data, and information on how the Red Hat IT automation and management pieces fit together.

Learn the market realities and demands that cause IT organizations to look for automation and management solutions–and the challenges they face in trying to implement them. We'll focus on the ways Red Hat can help return control to the organization, and we’ll provide customer examples.

Increasingly, enterprise IT organizations are shifting workloads to run in hybrid cloud architectures using a mix of public cloud services and dedicated datacenter resources. New applications are being written and constantly updated using agile methods supported by microservices and containers. Data integration and business process transformation are operational imperatives as enterprises create new information-driven services and customer engagement models. In this hybrid cloud era, the stability and security of core enterprise platforms is critical.

Whether deployed on bare metal, a managed cloud service, or on public cloud infrastructure, IT ops teams need to maintain consistent operating system configurations, patches, security policies, and container images. Speed, agility, and security are crucial, as are open source management platforms and programmatic policy-driven approaches. In this keynote, you will learn 5 important ways that your IT operations team must use analytics and automation to ensure future hybrid cloud success.

Join Red Hat Chief Architect, Matt Smith, along with Tigera CTO, Solutions, Christopher Liljenstolpe, as they share their experience and knowledge helping leading enterprises achieve their key business transformation initiatives around moving to secure cloud-based, containerized microservice applications. In this 60 minute webinar, they will cover their top lessons learned on network security and Red Hat OpenShift.

Bridging conventional and agile IT, Red Hat brings a portfolio of open, flexible, heterogeneous solutions that already power the world’s most successful, innovative companies. Open platforms, open management and open application development are the keys to funding the acceleration of game-changing digital strategies.